The distance set between the artist and the object by the television medium: ‘Tele-visions’, the images conveyed and fixed through a shot. Images that are printed on canvas, to transfer the digital representation into the picture-dimension of Paolo Di Montegnacco. The underlying incursion of the self into a domain on which no effective intervention is normally possible. The alternative to wiping it out, switching it off, not seeing it is to capture it and fix it, to evoke, provoke, tell, represent, communicate, to make viewers curious by enabling images to interpret and inspire. The main subject of the works on display at Spazio Lazzari from March….. to April …..was the logos, a homage to pop culture and a deliberately provocative choice for an exhibition in this space, for a show meant to complete and improve the store. A judgement on the new icons of our civilisation, not simply meant to express inflexible condemnation but a critique of consumeristic aberrations and a genuine acquittal of the symbols that represent it. The exhibition included also some of the artist’s figurative visions centred around the image of objects emerging from an apparently abstract texture of light-energy, with a view to making it readable, to get viewers to enquire into the values of a society in which representation itself is much more important than the represented objects.
Last of all the tele-visual portrait, presented as a face whose identity is irrelevant, because the artist’s aim is to capture it and give it the form of a tragicomic mask in the new television theatre. Paolo Di Montegnacco has been working in the field of communication for several years. Since the late ‘90s he has devoted himself to photography and has through his works analysed the relationship between art and the media dimension in contemporary life.